Family Values, Special DoJ Edition

Hat tip to reader Phil Nelson for this piece of news:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and interim U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta have decided to pull federal officers off the Crimes Against Children Unit, which handles child endangerment cases, and assign them to adult porn cases instead.

Not child porn, mind you — we're talking about pictures of grown-ups having consensual sex. Obscenity, it turns out, is a new "top priority" for the Justice Department.

Jason Schultz at LawGeek is still picking his jaw up off the floor. 

So we're going to take agents off cases of child endangerment to pursue consensual sexual expression by adults? What the heck? And this is the "Family Values" party?

Comments

[carpundit]

This battle was going on inside DOJ components when Ashcroft was AG. Some of the high policymaking types wanted to push anti-adult obscenity initiatives. In 2001 that got dropped, obviously. But they picked it up again, I see.

My sense is that the ground-level DOJ personnel (career law enforcement) generally think this is a horrible idea. It's the political higher-ups who want it done.